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In the vein of #KanyeNewYorkerTweets, here's another genius pairing of incongruous things: Wholesome old Family Circus cartoons with quotes from Jersey Shore, together known as Jersey Circus. As the creators put it:

We strive to reconcile our guilty delight in Jersey Shore, a bastion of trash, with our eye-rolling fondness for the Family Circus. We do this by juxtaposing the two in a very literal sense. We think you'll agree that something important is being done here.
No duh we'll bite, but it's also not the first spoof of Family Circus we've enjoyed. After the break, some highlights of Jersey Circus plus a few of its parody predecessors.



Then there's the recklessly perverted Other Family (and a warning that some language on the site is NSFW):




And here are some comics from The Nietzsche Family Circus, which pairs -- you guessed it -- Family Circus and randomized quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche:





If that's not enough Family Circus riffage for you (what is "enough" anyway?) be sure to check out Scott Meets Family Circus and the archives of the now-defunct (and also language NSFW) Dysfunctional Family Circus. Then take a deep breath or maybe a nap.